With Christa du Plessis, who presented a lecture on an interesting theme in Van Heerden’s work

With Irma and Sampie de Klerk, winners of the Huisgenoot 100 love story competition. (Photo: Christa du Plessis)

With former colleague Godfrey Meintjes and Lisa Ker-Antrobus (Victoria Manor and Die Tuishuise).

With HemelBesem

Darryl David with his well-deserved Order of the Windmill award

Novelist and artist Kirby van der Merwe captured the veld soirée in a series of 30-second-sketches

A sketch of a Cradock Karoo cottage by Kirby van der Merwe

Lien Botha presents Darryl David with the Order of the Windmill in recognition of his initiatives and hard work as organiser of many festivals around

Coenie de Villiers CD signing, with Christa du Plessis

With HemelBesem and Coenie de Villiers at Victoria Manor

With Alexander Strachan

Coenie de Villiers, Moederkerk, Cradock

Cradock Moederkerk, where Coenie de Villiers performed

Michausdal, Cradock

With novelists Alexander Strachan and Lien Botha, Victoria Manor

Academics Helize van Vuuren and Ernst Kotzé before their presentations

Dining hall, Victoria Manor Hotel, Cradock. Together with Buffelshoek Lodge in the same town’s district, Victoria Manor and its associated Tuishuise are headquarters and home to the Etienne van Heerden Veld Soirée.